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That takes care of the needs of the plants, but what about the
nutritional needs of people? What I use and recommend is
evaporated ocean water. Such a product is usually called “sea
solids,” “ocean minerals,” or “sea mineral solids.”
Common sources of trace elements include wood ashes, sea
solids and borax.
Over the ages, rain and erosion have moved a great many
minerals that would ordinarily be on land in abundance into
the sea. Over-farming without replenishment and farming
practices that lose topsoil to erosion have exacerbated this
problem. Though I am able to go to the seashore and collect
kelp from the beach for my own compost, this is seldom
practical for most people.
In essence, sea water contains, in varying amounts, every
known element save those made artificially in nuclear
reactors. In 1976, Dr. Maynard Murray published a topic
entitled Sea Energy Agriculture in which he highlighted the
results of numerous studies he had made from the 1930s
through 1950s on the addition of ocean minerals to
agricultural land. Though his topic was published some time
ago, I have discovered that in growing beds side by side,
those treated with sea minerals do, in fact, produce obviously
healthier plants.
